FF:CC would be *impossible* to play multiplayer with regular controllers. Each player has their own inventory; how are they going to divide up the screen when you have four people? "Oh, sorry guys, I needed to equip food in my command slots. Sorry for breaking up the action for a minute while we were fighting a tense battle with this boss." Besides, any self respecting geek should have a GBA already.
I refer you to some sage advice for dealing with it here, although this *might* be more funny for you.
Sure, blame Nintendo for innovating a new way to play video games, that'll teach them to try anything new. In short, FF:CC is one of the most incredible multiplayer experiences I've ever had, and I cared not at all that it required GBAs to play. It's more than a video game; it's a social symphony for those who play.
Let's hope U3D is able to stay clear of such entanglements. Having a patent involved in a file format makes it questionable if FOSS can legally use the format.
In the first line of the article, it says that Microsoft is involved with developing the format. Maybe I'm cynical, but I have little to no faith that this will come out as an open standard. We all know about Microsoft's SOP with respect to actual open standards that they've "enhanced". With them in on the ground floor on this one, I think it's doomed to be proprietary.
I saw a documentary about hydrogen power on TV a while back.
There were two closed containers of liquid. One had regular unleaded gasoline, the other had liquid hydrogen. A sharpshooter took aim at each of the containers and put a bullet through each of them.
The gasoline container exploded fantastically. Nothing left of it.
The hydrogen container fell off of its stand and had a small blue flame protruding from the side.
Getting drunk and eventually getting home is the easy part.
You'd think so, wouldn't you? But I know a guy who had a bunch of trouble one night.
He went out to a few bars one night with friends, and they all ended up at a couple's house that they had met. After everybody went home, this guy decided to stay there, because he was too drunk. For some reason he slept on this couple's bed too when they all passed out. One of the two of the couple had pissed the bed in the night (he thinks it was the guy), and now this guy was sleeping in urine all night. The next morning found him with a bad hangover, smelling like piss, and finding that his pants had been ripped up when their dog decided to eat his wallet.
I find it extremely ironic that the google ads I saw were for "XBox Accessories" and "XBox at Sears", two things that are most definately not needed with an XBox emulator.
What is it? Read a few links to inform yourself. What I really want to know is why this conspiracy keeps continuing. You know the one I'm talking about. Canada. Canada doesn't really exist. Want proof? Let me show you.
A few questions about Canada:
But I can see Canada! It's on our maps!
Ah, yes. You have been brainwashed by the governments of the world with their lies. Without the help of so called "map experts", would you really know what you were looking at? It could be Alaska for all you know. It could have been imposed on a gullible world at many times in history. From the beginning of the so-called "New World", people have been convinced that Canada exists.
Don't all of these experts agree that Canada exists?
Yes, they do, but should one be suspicious of such overwhelming agreement? Obviously they are trying to hide something. Would an individual student that talks of such a topic in a school be awarded a degree for talking such "nonsense"? No, he/she would be ostracized by classmates. And so, the groupthink makes a self fulfilling prophecy.
Who would ever want to perpetrate such a hoax?
It's hard to say how many have played a part in this conspiracy over time, but the primary players are easy to spot. The US government, of course, has played its own role in the hoax. They even invaded "Canada" at one point in their history to build nationalistic pride, even though the US "lost" that war. Imagine how easy it was to start the hoax back then, with no TV or radio, only newspaper articles that were hopelessly out of date! People all over the world simply assume that Canada exists now, and that is something that governments, both official and secret, can hold over the people.
And so, now that you know, can anyone come forth with proof that Canada exists?
Know what this is like? It's like needing a certification from the government in order to publish a novel or article. Of course, it's only to make sure there are no grammatical errors, but if I can't pay the fee, my novel or article can't get published. Or it becomes a crime to read my novel because my grammatical errors might "damage" linguistic purity. And then the government has control over what you can read.
Although, we all know from the DeCSS case that code "isn't free speech" when it's convenient. So the end result of this would be that the government can tell you what can and can't code.
I was fine with everything in the summary until I got to the "certification" part, but who knows, maybe my tinfoil hat is on too tight.
How much more could my power supply take before blowing? I imagine that some sort of heating element, even if it is in a 5.25 in drive bay, would be too much.
Although, imagine a beowulf cluster of those! I'd give the bakery down the street a run for their money, if only I could pay the resulting electric bill. And, of course, if I could only cook.
I'm finding google less and less useful thanks to Google not being the slightest bit successful at fighting the companies tweaking their ranks...
That's right, blame the companies actually innovating new technology and leave the scum that take advantage out of it. That'll teach them to come up with new things. Any search engine will have tweaking problems once it reaches sufficient popularity as Google has.
(Also noteworty is Google Sets, however I can't find many uses for it yet).
Just as an example, I put redhat, debian, and mandrake into the Google Sets. It returned a bunch of alternate Linux distros. This could be useful for finding targeted information on a subject that one isn't familiar with except for a few starting elements. Not groundbreaking by any means, but it could have interesting uses, even if it's only reducing search time to find relevant information on a topic.
IMO consoles are best for games that are more social.
Very true. The only games I buy for my consoles (PS2/Gamecube) anymore are games that can be played by multiple people in the same room. (Except for Final Fantasy games. I'm so weak...) A console is just another facet to gaming that my circle of friends have. In my mind, PC games and console games don'texclude the other.
Sure, it's fun to lug computers over to someone's house for a weekend and play LAN games. But if you have a couple hours to kill before going out for the evening, doing a bit of Crystal Chronicles with your friends is much more preferable. Yes, you need a GBA for every person, but believe me, it's worth it. I've actually saved money by buying this and all the needed equipment, since we'll choose to "Chron" instead of go out to the bar.
For us, short notice multiplayer is where it's at on consoles. Planned, weekend multiplayer gaming sessions is where it's at on the PC.
YOUR SIG SUCKS!!!
Right, that's why that user now has (as of this post) 23 Freaks. Not a large number, but probably more than a normal user has on average. Except Taco, I suppose. Yeah, it's stupid, but so is slashdot. I mean, look at you
By the way, you could do a little bit better trolling. You don't have many responses.
Say, in reading your user details, I see that you've deployed Open/Star Office in your school. I'm in a similar situation of hating the continued cash that my school sends to MS every couple of years for MS Office, etc. I'm trying to get acceptance out there among my users for OOo, but response so far has been lukewarm at best.
How did you pitch it to your users and management? The biggest problem I've run into is that it is, according to my users, relatively "different" than MS offerings and will require a non-trivial amount of retraining to bring everyone up to speed. I have ~1000 users, all indoctrinated on MS. That doesn't include students, but they tend to pick up computer skills faster than teachers anyway.
I really like the fact that students can load OOo up at home and have the same software; it destroys barriers to entry. But I'm having difficulty getting it accepted.
If you care to contact me, my email address is clsaiko@[OOo]mahtomedi.k12.mn.us without the "[OOo]".
It's only anecdotal, but I did run an ad-aware scan after it was installed to see. I didn't see any strange registry keys created during installation using Regmon. Time will tell, I suppose, but I'm satisfied enough.
I love the work - its the way I get treated as a person I cant stand.
Have you ever thought that it could be your attitude towards others? Not a dig on you, personally, just a serious question. I'm quite well liked in my organization, and I'm the disabler (as opposed to enabler) in restricting what people can and can't do on the network.
I listen to their concerns and questions and always explain myself in ways that they can understand. Not because they are stupid, but because they don't have my job. I don't know the first thing about home appraisal or horticulture. Why should I expect them to know about my job? I'm always pleasant on the phone when they call, or when I'm respoding to email, or when I speak to them face to face. I even go out drinking with them.
I sometimes wonder if IT people generally have an animosity toward end users that's bleeds through and gives off a "bad vibe".
Of course, I also believe that 25% of a sysadmin's job is being a politician, so maybe I'm biased.
This may or may not involve programming, but it usually doesn't.
Well, according to SAGE, programming is a skill sysadmins should have. For everything above a Level 1 admin programming is a desirable or required skill. Yes, yes, scripting isn't really programming, but still. The upper level admins should be required to have knowledge of an actual programming language.
I'm fairly certain that a straight sysadmin job will most likely not require the same level of programming skill that a job that has programming as a job duty would. My sysadmin job doesn't require it. But it sure beats clicking a dozen times through some GUI on 800 different computers. So first it saves me time, then it saves my organization time, which ultimately saves money.
"Hey, look at me! I'm replacing redundant co-workers with very small shell scripts!"
A potential galactic civilization that uses something other than Microsoft? There go all the antitrust cases, at least assuming the aliens eventually went all open source.
Terran Linux distros are "alien" to many people, but an actual alien Linux-like OS that has reached it's natural conclusion of ultimate usability and extreme functionality after a few thousand years of refinement? I'd use it, and I think a lot of others would too.
Of course, any alien race would probably have drastically different ergonomic needs for the interface, but maybe they could give us a few pointers.
I could do just that. But when we switch, I want to move off of Microsoft products completely, not just Windows 2000 and XP. It's a bit difficult to justify moving to Linux when all of our current software still runs on Windows, and we'll likely run into a few snags running on Linux that will cost precious productivity.
Right now I'm biding my time and collecting data. I don't want the switch to Linux to be because it is "an alternative" to Windows. I want the switch to Linux to be because it is a better solution and will save money.
Most serious places set up software images of Windows first, before they deploy. And certainly before they pay a "software engineer" to "waste half a day" setting up XP. Welcome to my foes list, troll.
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I refer you to some sage advice for dealing with it here, although this *might* be more funny for you.
Sure, blame Nintendo for innovating a new way to play video games, that'll teach them to try anything new. In short, FF:CC is one of the most incredible multiplayer experiences I've ever had, and I cared not at all that it required GBAs to play. It's more than a video game; it's a social symphony for those who play.
In the first line of the article, it says that Microsoft is involved with developing the format. Maybe I'm cynical, but I have little to no faith that this will come out as an open standard. We all know about Microsoft's SOP with respect to actual open standards that they've "enhanced". With them in on the ground floor on this one, I think it's doomed to be proprietary.
There were two closed containers of liquid. One had regular unleaded gasoline, the other had liquid hydrogen. A sharpshooter took aim at each of the containers and put a bullet through each of them.
The gasoline container exploded fantastically. Nothing left of it.
The hydrogen container fell off of its stand and had a small blue flame protruding from the side.
You'd think so, wouldn't you? But I know a guy who had a bunch of trouble one night.
He went out to a few bars one night with friends, and they all ended up at a couple's house that they had met. After everybody went home, this guy decided to stay there, because he was too drunk. For some reason he slept on this couple's bed too when they all passed out. One of the two of the couple had pissed the bed in the night (he thinks it was the guy), and now this guy was sleeping in urine all night. The next morning found him with a bad hangover, smelling like piss, and finding that his pants had been ripped up when their dog decided to eat his wallet.
That's a bad night.
I find it extremely ironic that the google ads I saw were for "XBox Accessories" and "XBox at Sears", two things that are most definately not needed with an XBox emulator.
I'm sterile. You'll be hearing from me shortly, after I can afford a Mac, of course.
HEY! It isn't fair to stereotype that way!
I drink Diet Dew!
What is it? Read a few links to inform yourself. What I really want to know is why this conspiracy keeps continuing. You know the one I'm talking about. Canada. Canada doesn't really exist. Want proof? Let me show you.
A few questions about Canada:
But I can see Canada! It's on our maps!
Ah, yes. You have been brainwashed by the governments of the world with their lies. Without the help of so called "map experts", would you really know what you were looking at? It could be Alaska for all you know. It could have been imposed on a gullible world at many times in history. From the beginning of the so-called "New World", people have been convinced that Canada exists.
Don't all of these experts agree that Canada exists?
Yes, they do, but should one be suspicious of such overwhelming agreement? Obviously they are trying to hide something. Would an individual student that talks of such a topic in a school be awarded a degree for talking such "nonsense"? No, he/she would be ostracized by classmates. And so, the groupthink makes a self fulfilling prophecy.
Who would ever want to perpetrate such a hoax?
It's hard to say how many have played a part in this conspiracy over time, but the primary players are easy to spot. The US government, of course, has played its own role in the hoax. They even invaded "Canada" at one point in their history to build nationalistic pride, even though the US "lost" that war. Imagine how easy it was to start the hoax back then, with no TV or radio, only newspaper articles that were hopelessly out of date! People all over the world simply assume that Canada exists now, and that is something that governments, both official and secret, can hold over the people.
And so, now that you know, can anyone come forth with proof that Canada exists?
(This post was based loosely on this website.)
Although, we all know from the DeCSS case that code "isn't free speech" when it's convenient. So the end result of this would be that the government can tell you what can and can't code.
I was fine with everything in the summary until I got to the "certification" part, but who knows, maybe my tinfoil hat is on too tight.
Although, imagine a beowulf cluster of those! I'd give the bakery down the street a run for their money, if only I could pay the resulting electric bill. And, of course, if I could only cook.
That's right, blame the companies actually innovating new technology and leave the scum that take advantage out of it. That'll teach them to come up with new things. Any search engine will have tweaking problems once it reaches sufficient popularity as Google has.
Just as an example, I put redhat, debian, and mandrake into the Google Sets. It returned a bunch of alternate Linux distros. This could be useful for finding targeted information on a subject that one isn't familiar with except for a few starting elements. Not groundbreaking by any means, but it could have interesting uses, even if it's only reducing search time to find relevant information on a topic.
Sure, it's fun to lug computers over to someone's house for a weekend and play LAN games. But if you have a couple hours to kill before going out for the evening, doing a bit of Crystal Chronicles with your friends is much more preferable. Yes, you need a GBA for every person, but believe me, it's worth it. I've actually saved money by buying this and all the needed equipment, since we'll choose to "Chron" instead of go out to the bar.
For us, short notice multiplayer is where it's at on consoles. Planned, weekend multiplayer gaming sessions is where it's at on the PC.
By the way, you could do a little bit better trolling. You don't have many responses.
Thank you...
Say, in reading your user details, I see that you've deployed Open/Star Office in your school. I'm in a similar situation of hating the continued cash that my school sends to MS every couple of years for MS Office, etc. I'm trying to get acceptance out there among my users for OOo, but response so far has been lukewarm at best.
How did you pitch it to your users and management? The biggest problem I've run into is that it is, according to my users, relatively "different" than MS offerings and will require a non-trivial amount of retraining to bring everyone up to speed. I have ~1000 users, all indoctrinated on MS. That doesn't include students, but they tend to pick up computer skills faster than teachers anyway.
I really like the fact that students can load OOo up at home and have the same software; it destroys barriers to entry. But I'm having difficulty getting it accepted.
If you care to contact me, my email address is clsaiko@[OOo]mahtomedi.k12.mn.us without the "[OOo]".
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eBook reader: 400 dollars
Fold-up chair for reading outside: 30 dollars
Slashdotting your company's web server while trying to get a shameless plug: Priceless
Which bank was it that asked you this?
It's only anecdotal, but I did run an ad-aware scan after it was installed to see. I didn't see any strange registry keys created during installation using Regmon. Time will tell, I suppose, but I'm satisfied enough.
Really? How do you know? Do you have proof? Show me.
It replaces and plays Quicktime, Realplayer, Windows Media, and much more. It comes with encoding options as well.
Have you ever thought that it could be your attitude towards others? Not a dig on you, personally, just a serious question. I'm quite well liked in my organization, and I'm the disabler (as opposed to enabler) in restricting what people can and can't do on the network.
I listen to their concerns and questions and always explain myself in ways that they can understand. Not because they are stupid, but because they don't have my job. I don't know the first thing about home appraisal or horticulture. Why should I expect them to know about my job? I'm always pleasant on the phone when they call, or when I'm respoding to email, or when I speak to them face to face. I even go out drinking with them.
I sometimes wonder if IT people generally have an animosity toward end users that's bleeds through and gives off a "bad vibe".
Of course, I also believe that 25% of a sysadmin's job is being a politician, so maybe I'm biased.
Well, according to SAGE, programming is a skill sysadmins should have. For everything above a Level 1 admin programming is a desirable or required skill. Yes, yes, scripting isn't really programming, but still. The upper level admins should be required to have knowledge of an actual programming language.
I'm fairly certain that a straight sysadmin job will most likely not require the same level of programming skill that a job that has programming as a job duty would. My sysadmin job doesn't require it. But it sure beats clicking a dozen times through some GUI on 800 different computers. So first it saves me time, then it saves my organization time, which ultimately saves money.
"Hey, look at me! I'm replacing redundant co-workers with very small shell scripts!"
Terran Linux distros are "alien" to many people, but an actual alien Linux-like OS that has reached it's natural conclusion of ultimate usability and extreme functionality after a few thousand years of refinement? I'd use it, and I think a lot of others would too.
Of course, any alien race would probably have drastically different ergonomic needs for the interface, but maybe they could give us a few pointers.
Right now I'm biding my time and collecting data. I don't want the switch to Linux to be because it is "an alternative" to Windows. I want the switch to Linux to be because it is a better solution and will save money.
Most serious places set up software images of Windows first, before they deploy. And certainly before they pay a "software engineer" to "waste half a day" setting up XP. Welcome to my foes list, troll.